Recipe For Hard Tack Candy

Think jolly ranchers lollipops etc this is a candy that you suck on similar to those.

Recipe for hard tack candy. In a medium saucepan stir together the white sugar corn syrup and water. Put the water sugar and corn syrup into a heavy sauce pan. Start cutting around edges with candy shears as syrup cools.

Stir until well mixed. Heat over medium and stir until the sugar is dissolved. You dont even have to touch it until you sift the sugar off.

She had a marble candy board i use a cookie sheet. Keep an ice cold bowl of water handy in the event of any small burns. Set one pan of candy over a sauce pan containing hot water unless you have a helper to help cut the candy.

Add food coloring and oil flavoring. If you do not have a sugar thermometer determine when the candy is at the hard crack phase. What is hard tack candy.

Let sit a couple minutes and start cutting the pieces. You make hard tack candy by boiling sugar to the point of hard crack stage which is between 290 300º fahrenheit. You do not need to stir the it while it is cooking.

Allow the mixture to heat without stirring until it reaches 300 f. Use the sugar thermometer to measure the temperature. In a sturdy deep non reactive pot on medium heat add sugar water and corn syrup.